Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
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Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he arose, and departed to his house.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
Joshua
HistoryThou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSay unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHappy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAs the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
Numbers
LawNow the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
Matthew
Gospels / Matthew(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
Job
Wisdom / JobBehold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
Leviticus
LawVanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonPrinces are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
2 Chronicles
HistoryCursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.